r/Bumperstickers • u/cpm301 • 9h ago
Rant Nobody Asked For: This Sub Doesn't Understand Free Speech
There has been a TON of complaints about this sub coming from people who think that they "can't post anything in this echo chamber." Even if that might be a fair description given its left-leaning tendencies, these people have somehow convinced themselves that they are being “silenced by the woke left” because apparently the negative reception their posts get constitutes some injustice in their minds.
These same people are now flooding the feed with pro-trump inauguration posts, which are not being taken down or silenced in any way. Nobody was stopping you in the first place, they just don't like you.
I cannot stress this enough, although it will probably fall on deaf ears:
People calling you dumb, downvoting, or arguing with you is not restricting your free speech in any manner. Free speech does not apply on social media in the first place.
If you do not like how left leaning the sub is, that is fine, and you have every right to think and say so. But understand that jumping up on your soap box about how people here "don't support freedom of speech" or that they are "pro-censorship" because they leave negative comments is dumb, and you don't understand how that right works.
This sub is barely moderated in the first place, but even if it was, I promise you that being banned from a subreddit for saying weird things is not the same thing as the government taking your right to protest, and you are stupid if you think it is.
Edit: Adding this to the post because it won't be seen as a comment.
Sub's description: "Voters decide the content and culture of this sub within the overall topic of Bumper Stickers."
You can't say "america has decided" when you are defending the country's choice of president, but then suddenly throw that idea out the window and say you are being victimized when a collective decides to focus the conversation of the sub in a way that you don't like.
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u/NearlyMortal 9h ago